Many coaches and athletes will tell you there is no taste sweeter than that of revenge.
Revenge is just what the Crestview Lady Bulldog basketball team got on Friday night with a 45-35 win over Navarre to even the score on the season with the Lady Raiders.
Joe Brunson was born to play football.
The son of longtime Crestview and Baker coach Matt Brunson, who is now the head coach at Opp, Ala., Joe was a member of Baker’s 2020 state championship team playing running back and linebacker.
It’s time to highlight some of the top volleyball players from our coverage area in 2023.
Baker had the most memorable season, winning a 1A state title, while Navarre and Jay both earned runner-up honors in their respective districts and made the regional tournament.
Kayleb Wagner was back in Baker for the holiday break last month after completing his first season of college football at Southern Illinois University.
Wagner redshirted and played in one game. He did score a touchdown in the game and will have four years of eligibility remaining.
Just when it looked as if the Crestview boys basketball team had a fighting chance against Pope John Paul II on Wednesday things fell apart.
The Bulldogs had closed a Knight lead that had once been 15 points to a point at 41-40 after Makhi Jones hit a pair of free throws with 7:20 left in the fourth quarter. John Paul, out of Hendersonville, Tenn., exploded for a 30-11 run after the free throws by Jones.
Biblical King Solomon is said to be the wisest man that ever lived. In chapter three of the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon reminded us that there is an appointed season for everything under the heavens. The appointed seasons of local sports are part of the cycle of life. At this time every year we take time to look at the top sports stories for the year that has been.
The new classifications are out for high school football in Florida. And there are some changes.
Navarre, Pace, Tate and Crestview will be together in District 1-6A starting in 2024. Milton is headed to 5A and Baker will remain rural.
It has been two months since Baker offensive lineman Kurt Armstrong announced his commitment to play football at Mercer University in Macon, Ga.
The 6-foot-4, 320-pound Armstrong made the commitment official on Wednesday as he signed with the Bears surrounded by family and friends in a celebration ceremony at the Crooked Tale Gastropub in Crestview.
Baker School’s Haley Westberry still has her senior season in basketball season to finish. But she has already taken a big step in her educational and athletic future.
Westberry, an outside hitter for the Lady Gator Class 1A state champion volleyball team, has signed a scholarship to play at Coastal Alabama Community College in Brewton, Ala.
